# Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, Section 198: Restriction on use of landlord's break clause following retaliatory possession claim


(1) Subsection (2) applies where—
(a) a landlord (having given a contract-holder a notice under a landlord's break clause) has made a possession claim on the ground in section 199, and
(b) the court has refused to make an order for possession because it considered the claim to be a retaliatory claim (see section 217).
(2) The landlord may not give another notice under a landlord's break clause to the contract-holder before the end of the period of six months starting with the day on which the court refused to make an order for possession.
(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all fixed term standard contracts with a landlord's break clause.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/1/section/198 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-198
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